ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00026.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe process of strategic management of research and development is contrasted through the application of decision analysis in the evaluation of R&D projects—one in an electronics company, and one in a pharmaceutical company.Issues considered include the different character of applied R&D in each industry resulting from, for example, the shorter product lifecycles that apply to the electronics industry compared to the much longer lifecycles in the pharmaceutical industry. The difference of time horizon between the two industries suggests that different decision criteria might be adopted in project evaluation. Decision‐makers in both industries express a need for flexible decision and performance criteria in relation to strategy dialogue about alternative project‐options.Implementation problems encountered include: long term discounting, the nature of the preference function for long‐term cash flow streams, issues in making assessments of uncertainty in relation to long‐term future time horizons, and the management of research p

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00027.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00028.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThere are problems in managing successful interdisciplinary research when resources must be drawn from across departmental bounds. The action research model provides a means for the interdisciplinary group to explore the problem constellation and introduce change. The application of this model to overall interdisciplinary policy management is illustrated for a group of health research centres in an academic Health Sciences Centre and for the Technology and Engineering area of a technology organization. For both, the application of the action research model introduced an improved basis for conducting interdisciplinary activities in discipline oriented organizational settings.

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00029.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper outlines some examples of current collaboration between universities and technologically sophisticated small companies in Britain. Based on the examples a descriptive model of university‐industry collaboration in the UK is presented. The model shows that interactions with small industries are often sequels to earlier ones and are essentially a part of the total university‐industry collaboration efforts. Very often the whole process of new efforts. Very often the whole process of new product emergence chain – research ideaprototype‐marketable product‐multiple applications‐general marketable version – is triggered off by initial interactions with small companies and small companies do play a very important role in the process of total technology transfer from university to industry. While flow of research results in a collaboration was on the whole well planned, the initial contact was prone to chance. A two‐stage search by the university, which can reduce the chance elemen

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00030.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper reports on the problems encountered and their subsequent solution during the development and construction of an advanced locomotive from prototype to full production assembly. A fleet of these locomotives are to work in the UK National Coal Board's (NCB) Selby coalfield. In order to ensure that all the information was accurately recorded and could be applied to a reasonably precise point in the development process, visits were made to the company at intervals of about two weeks. In developing products of this nature a strongproblem solving capacity is a necessity and in the main it was found that engineering and theoretical design problems were solved quickly and once solved did not recur on subsequent units. Strong links between specialist suppliers and customers are vital, since components will often be used in unfamiliar applications and the customer may have to spend time carrying out applied development of suppliers' components. The development and production of the locomotive would have been aided by the NCB providing more accurate specifications, giving an indication of future volume requirements and being better prepared to site test the prototype after its delivery.

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00031.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractSurprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of what size is desirable for a whole laboratory as distinct from the groups that comprise it. A semi‐quantitative analysis shows that while very small laboratories are handicapped by restricted common services there is also a heavy penalty paid by very large laboratories in the extended path over which information must flow between the working scientists and the decision makers. It is. not desirable, therefore, to expand research effort by allowing laboratories to grow indefinitely in siz

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00032.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00033.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00034.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-6807    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00035.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY